Port Talbot Poems in the Montreal Scribbler

By Adam Hood Burwell


 

NATURE’S BROAD HINT *



      When Nature made my frame,
      She gave me a broad hint,
And if I look the proper way,
      I find there’s plenty in ’t:
She gave me two eyes with which to see,

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      Two ears with which to hear,
      One mouth with which to speak,
      From which one might infer,
      That we should speak but little,
      And hear and see much more;

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Whilst those who use their mouths the most,
      Her bounds must trespass o’er.

 

ERIEUS [Page 38]

 


* This poem appeared in The Scribbler (Montreal), I, 461, (20 June, 1822). [back]